# anonymity in moos

Tom Ritchford (tom@mvision.com)
Mon, 15 Apr 1996 09:30:18 PDT

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    "Seth I. Rich" <sir@po.cwru.edu> writes:

    >If you've got abusive users, DEAL WITH THEM.
    >One really sucky trend on MOOs these days is to look at abusive users and say,
    >"Gee, we've got abusive users.  Perhaps I should reconsider redefining all my
    >rules and providing a mechanism by which we could resolve the issues raised..."
    >when the correct (IMO) thing to do is go "Oh, you're an asshole?  Ok, bye." and
    >promptly @toad the jackass.

    Yes; we avoided doing this at Id... and we were wrong.
    I was hoping people would work it out.  But no... and
    judicious @toading of a couple of people fixed it!

    I'd strongly vote AGAINST readable email addresses for this reason.

        /t

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